At a meeting, a delegation of Indian Women's Press Corps told Singh that a brutal assault was unleashed by lawyers on journalists in Patiala House court yesterday preventing them from discharging their duties.
They also complained that police remained "silent spectators" during the assault and asked Singh to fix accountability on the men in uniform.
Violence broke out in the court complex yesterday as groups of lawyers attacked journalists, students and teachers of JNU and unidentified people dubbing them as anti-nationals in the wake of a row over the arrest of a student leader.
The journalists, accompanied by some victims of the assault, urged the Home Minister to verify CCTV footage of the incident to book those who were involved in it.
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"We demand that the perpetrators of the assault be brought to book at the earliest," the delegation said in a memorandum.
They said it was a matter of concern that the Delhi Police Commissioner had dismissed the incident as a "scuffle".
Sources said the Home Minister assured the delegation that he would instruct the Delhi Police Commissioner to take urgent action and ensure the guilty are punished.